Van Cliburn: My Favorite Encores

"I simply won't play in public any music with which I fail to find a deep emotional rapport," Van Cliburn once declared to the Buffalo News. These works dear to the heart of the great American virtuoso include the Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 31, Étude for Piano No. 12 in C Minor ("Revolutionary") and Nocturne No. 18 in E Major, Op. 62/2, by Chopin; "Reflets dans l'eau" from Images, "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair", "L'isle Joyeuse", "Clair de lune", and "La plus que lente" waltz by Debussy; Widmung by Schumann; and the Étude No. 5 in E Flat Minor from Études-Tableaux for piano, Op. 39, by Rachmaninov.